Oscar Roig

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[Oscar Roig @oroig]

@eumd Bon equip ha quedat

[maddie @madsssagascar]

quote so evil it could be used in a childrens comic book to be widely and easily understood as “thats the bad guy”

[Oscar Roig @oroig]

@AlexDeLlano La local de Curaçao me gusta más que la de visitante

[FC Barcelona Femení @FCBfemeni]

🏆 𝗦𝗢𝗠 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗗'𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗔 🏆

[Variety @Variety]

EXCLUSIVE: Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s "La Bola Negra," starring Penélope Cruz, has sparked a multi-studio bidding war for U.S. distribution rights among A24, Mubi and Netflix after earning a massive 16-minute standing ovation at #Cannes.

https://t.co/AOBzinkqD4

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.

My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.

This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.

Hedgie🤗

[Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston]

"I think the war is very complete, pretty much" ~ Donald Trump, 73 days ago

[Oscar Roig @oroig]

@lacort A gaudir! Felicitats!

[Robert Lewandowski @lewy_official]

After four years full of challenges and hard work, it's time to move on.

I leave with the feeling that the mission is complete. 4 seasons, 3 championships.

I will never forget the love I received from the fans from my very first days.
Catalonia is my place on earth.

Thank you to everyone I met along the way during these beautiful four years.
A special thank you to President Laporta for giving me the chance to live the most incredible chapter of my career.

Barça is back where it belongs.
Visca el Barça. Visca Catalunya 💙❤️

@fcbarcelona

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

He's gotta get out of the Disney machine and do something with Yorgos

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

Great airline at juxtaposing prices to get in to World Cup games versus actually flying to country.

[Oscar Roig @oroig]

@blogmaldito total, d'haver-la fet fa 10 anys la vaig tornar a córrer aquesta edició passada i vaig flipar en com ha canviat i el tipus de corredor que hi havia. Per cert, es possible que els emails de confirmació triguin? Jo no he rebut el meu

[Oscar Roig @oroig]

@letterboxd

[Aleix @aleixmartines]

Història.

[HBO Max @hbomax]

The girls are fighting. #Euphoria

[Júlia Baena @Bibliojuvenil]

S'està fent un esforç comunicatiu molt gran per enfrontar famílies i docents. No ho aconseguiran; també som moltes les famílies més preocupades per les línies vermelles que se salta l'administració. Endavant amb tot, docents 💪🏼

[SuperSisi @SuperSisi]

The 1997 PlayStation game The Lost World: Jurassic Park features a secret ending video featuring Jeff Goldblum, that plays after completing the game. In this improvised message, Goldblum tells the player to turn off the game, go outside, take a walk, and get some air

[Reuters @Reuters]

Streets in Northern Tehran were filled with affluent Iranians meeting in cafés, exercising and playing sports — a far cry from other areas that saw heavy bombardment by the US and Israel. Still, many are waiting for news of peace